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Test data is available from 1 September 2022 onwards from the MARS archive. A daily updated test dataset is also available for the most recent 3 days on the FTP server. 

MARS

If you have access to ECMWF systems you can retrieve test data from MARS archive using keywords:

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WebAPI service

If you don't have access to ECMWF computers but would still like to access a large subset of test data you can use ECMWF WebAPI service.

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If you haven't done it yet you will need to create an ECMWF web account and accept the data licence (broken link)

Example

Total aerosol optical depth at 550 nm in NetCDF format, only European domain, 10 dates, day 1 forecast (broken link in code example)

#!/usr/bin/env python
from ecmwfapi import ECMWFDataServer
server = ECMWFDataServer()

server.retrieve({
    "dataset":   "cams-global-atmospheric-composition-forecasts-test",
    "stream":    "oper",
    "type":      "fc",
    "date":      "20230301/to/20230310",
    "time":      "00",    
    "step":      "0/to/23/by/1",
    "levtype":   "sfc",
    "format":    "netcdf",
    "param" :    "aod550",         # see parameter table at http://atmosphere.copernicus.eu/ftp-access-global-data (broken link)
    "grid":      "0.4/0.4",        # 0.4 x 0.4 regular lat-lon grid
    "area":      "70/-35/35/60",   # N/E/S/W area boundaries
    "target":    "/tmp/cams_test_20230301_10.nc"
})

FTP dissemination

The test dataset is available through ECPDS FTP dissemination systems in these directories:

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You can use your normal FTP account to access the data.

If everything else fails ...

... you can always contact us by sending an email to copernicus-support@ecmwf.int putting "Request for CAMS global test dataset" as a subject and specify:

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